Manifold sales-book.



- 4 No. 722,593. PATENTED MAR.10,1903.

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MANIFOLD SALES BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5,1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAY F. LANING, OF NORWALK, OHIO.

MANIFOLD SALES-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 722,593, dated March10, 1903.

Application filed February 5, 1902. Serial No. 92,760. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AY F. LANING, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Norwalk,county of Huron, State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Manifold Sales-Books, of which Ihereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in manifold sales-books; and theobjects of the invention are to provide a simple and efficient form ofbook which will serve as a veritable check upon dishonest clerks, sincethe leaves are printed in sections and no one leaf can be removed fromthe book or any section thereof without the instant detection of themanage- I accomplish this object by composing each book or sectionthereof of one continuously-doubled strip of paper, forming when foldeda plurality of leaves, so that the identity of each section cannot bedestroyed unless all the leaves composing the section are removed.Again, the strips of paper are printed while integrally connected toform the consecutive, original,and duplicate leaves or pages and afterdoubling compose one section. Hence when binding or stapling the book itwould be impossible to omit one leaf without omitting an entire section,and if any one leaf were missing it would obviously be the fault of theclerk or at any rate must have been torn out after the book had been puttogether and could not have been omitted by the binder. Of course if awhole section were omitted it would have been done by the binder unlessthe remaining stubs, which are also numbered, should show that theleaves were removed after binding. To accomplish these objects, Iconstruct the book as shown in the accompanying drawings, hereinafterdescribed, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a view of a completed book formed of twosections, each continuously folded into four leaves and duplicates fromone integral strip. The lower extremity has been trimmed off, thusexposing the free edges of all the leaves, the sections, however, beingdistinct at the upper ends. Fig. 2 shows an edge view of one of thesections. Fig. 3 shows a section formed of two strips of paper oncedoubled. Fig. 4 shows a section formed of two strips of paper, oneinclosing the other and the folded strips again doubled upon themselves,thus forming a section of eight leaves and duplicates. Fig. 5 shows astrip of paper once doubled to form two leaves and duplicates, and Fig.6 shows a strip of paper made long enough to double three timesrepeatedly to form an eight-leaved section.

In the views, a is the first fold, b the second fold, and c the thirdfold. When complete, the lower half of each leaf d becomes the originaland the upper half (2 becomes the duplicate. Space at f is left forstubs, which are numbered to correspond each with its leaf, so that anyleaf taken out can be detected. A line of perforations g separates theoriginal from the duplicate, and another line It separates the duplicatefrom the stub. Staples t' secure the stubs together. A carbon stripj isemployed, as usual, in the manner shown in Fig. 1. The strips of papermay be doubled repeatedly as many times as desired, care being taken tobuild each book of sections having the same number of leaves, and thepurchaser is notified of the number of leaves in each section. It willreadily be seen that every time the sections are doubled the number ofleaves are doubled and the security increased, since while a clerk mighttear out one leaf he would hardly tear out four or eight leaves, andtearing out one leaf would mar an entire section, as the consecutivenumbers would show, and the omission could not have been made by theprinter. After the books are bound and all danger of losing a .leaf isover the lower ends can be out before delivery to the purchaser, as online Z Z, or maybe cut in the store.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

In a manifoldin g sales-book a section therefor composed of an integralstrip of paper repeatedly doubled in one direction, forming name to thisspecification in the presence of original and duplicate pages, a line ofperfotwo subscribing witnesses. rations separating the pages, a stub atone end of each duplicate page, and a line of per- JAY LANING' 5forations between each stub and the duplicate Witnesses:

page adjoining, substantially as described. 0. H. OLDS,

In testimony whereof I have signed my WM. M. MONROE.

